MATLAB vs. Posit

MATLAB

223 Reviews and Ratings

Posit

235 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
MATLAB	Score9 out of 10	N/A	MatLab is a predictive analytics and computing platform based on a proprietary programming language. MatLab is used across industry and academia.	$49 per student license
Posit	Score10 out of 10	N/A	Posit, formerly RStudio, is a modular data science platform, combining open source and commercial products.	N/A

Pricing

MATLAB

Posit

Student: $49
per student license
Home: $149
perpetual license
Education: $250
per year
Education: $500
perpetual license
Standard: $860
per year
Standard: 2,150
perpetual license

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Pricing Offerings
MATLAB	Posit
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	MATLAB	Posit
Considered Both Products	MathWorks Ryan McGarry Vice President of Research, Neuroscientist in Research & Development at SPARK Neuro (Research, 11-50 employees) Chose MATLAB MATLAB's neurophysiological data pre-processing third-party packages are more scientifically validated compared to support for other software platforms. It also allows for writing code with a greater level of functionality and more capabilities than R-Studio, which is instead … Incentivized Helpful? Bin Cai Graduate Research Assistant in Engineering at Iowa State University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose MATLAB MATLAB has a very large database of embedded functions and it is continually growing. Graphics processing is much easier than other similar product for beginners (such as Jupyter notebook and Python). Although it is not an open-source language, lots of learning materials and … Incentivized Helpful? Maike Holthuijzen Graduate Research Assistant, Climate Modeling in Research & Development at University of Vermont (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose MATLAB I like the user interface of MATLAB and find it most intuitive compared to any of the other three programs I listed. However, unlike RStudio and Oracle VM VirtualBox, MATLAB is not open source. I do prefer MATLAB over PyCharm, because I find MATLAB to be a bit more intuitive. I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MATLAB MATLAB is very similar to R and Python, but has cleaner syntax than R and more in-built functionality than Python. However, both are free and therefore have that significant advantage over MATLAB. SQL is simpler but much more limited in use. Incentivized Helpful?	Posit (formerly RStudio) Verified User Chose Posit RStudio is the free alternative to MATLAB. It works just as well as the other software, and more features can be accessed but to the open-source nature. This software is more commonplace in the research lab setting due to its free cost. Incentivized Helpful? Terry Leitch Faculty in Finance and Accounting at Johns Hopkins (Education Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose Posit Far better integrated and easy to use. The only full-blown Python IDE is PyCharm, and it is a monolith. I used Spyder instead. I was very happy when RStudio added Python support so I can ditch Jupyter Notebooks, which really isn't an IDE but is more like RMarkdown, a small … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Posit While many of these are great, RStudio is the best for R work. There is also native support in the IDE for combining other languages, like Python, into workflows easily so work across languages can be handled in one location. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Posit I have tried to work a bit with Jupyer notebooks and Spyder, but both are way less agreeable than RStudio. Once you taste RStudio, you can't go back! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Posit Coding in RStudio is more convenient and plot display in RStudio can be more user-defined than JMP Pro. Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Chiararia Marketing Manager, Category Management in Marketing at Whirlpool Corporation (Consumer Electronics, 10,001+ employees) Chose Posit Pros: - Free - Huge repository of models and library, constantly updated Incentivized Helpful? Jevgenijs Steinbuks Economist in Research & Development at The World Bank (International Trade and Development, 10,001+ employees) Chose Posit In our organization RStudio is the main competitor for STATA. STATA has a larger number of users as it is far more user-friendly and has a large number of canned routines that work really well. RStudio is a niche software ideally suited to work with larger datasets. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

MATLAB

Posit

Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of MATLAB and Posit
Feature	MATLAB - Ratings	Posit 9.3 27 Ratings
Connect to Multiple Data Sources	00 Ratings	8.026 Ratings
Extend Existing Data Sources	00 Ratings	10.027 Ratings
Automatic Data Format Detection	00 Ratings	10.026 Ratings

Comparison of Data Exploration features of MATLAB and Posit
Feature	MATLAB - Ratings	Posit 9.0 27 Ratings
Visualization	00 Ratings	8.027 Ratings
Interactive Data Analysis	00 Ratings	10.024 Ratings

Comparison of Data Preparation features of MATLAB and Posit
Feature	MATLAB - Ratings	Posit 10.0 26 Ratings
Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment	00 Ratings	10.024 Ratings
Data Transformations	00 Ratings	10.026 Ratings

Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of MATLAB and Posit
Feature	MATLAB - Ratings	Posit 10.0 22 Ratings
Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools	00 Ratings	10.022 Ratings
Single platform for multiple model development	00 Ratings	10.022 Ratings
Self-Service Model Delivery	00 Ratings	10.019 Ratings

Comparison of Model Deployment features of MATLAB and Posit
Feature	MATLAB - Ratings	Posit 9.9 18 Ratings
Flexible Model Publishing Options	00 Ratings	10.018 Ratings
Security, Governance, and Cost Controls	00 Ratings	9.915 Ratings

User Ratings
	MATLAB	Posit
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (53 ratings)	10.0 (123 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.7 (17 ratings)
Usability	9.9 (4 ratings)	8.0 (4 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.4 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	9.5 (7 ratings)	8.9 (9 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.3 (4 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (3 ratings)